# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-brunet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:54:26.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michel-brunet"
name: "Michel Brunet"
slug: "michel-brunet"
description: "Michel Brunet is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France between 2008 and 2011. In 2001 Brunet announced the discovery in Central Africa of the skull and jaw remains of a late Miocene hominid nicknamed Toumaï. These remains may predate the earliest previously known hominid remains, Lucy, by over three million years; however, this conclusion is the subject of a significant controversy."
tagline: "French paleontologist and paleoanthropologist (1940-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michel_Brunet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-04-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.49
  momentum:             2.285538550598791
  historical:           9.826856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Мішель Брюне"
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    title: "ميشيل برونيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Brunet_(paleontologist)"
    title: "Michel Brunet (paleontologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Brunet_(paleont%C3%B3logo)"
    title: "Michel Brunet (paleontólogo)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Brunet_(pal%C3%A9oanthropologue)"
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    title: "Michel Brunet"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Brunet"
    title: "Michel Brunet"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump